Patrick O’Brien is a Senior Safety and Cybersecurity Engineer at exida LLC, where he leads process safety, functional safety, and cybersecurity consulting services and training courses for end-user industrial facilities. He has led risk assessments and other lifecycle activities for many different industrial applications, including oil and gas, specialty chemical, machinery, and robotics. He is a coauthor of Implementing IEC 62443: A Pragmatic Approach to Cybersecurity and Managing Cybersecurity in the Process Industries – A Risk-based Approach. O’Brien has a BS in chemical engineering...Read more
Dr ONG Mei Horng is currently an Advisor, Mentor and Consultant for food and beverage (F&B) manufacturers, start-ups, venture capitalists and research agencies. She helps F&B companies to innovate and transform their business via the development of new product, technology and services, and adoption of digital, automation and advanced manufacturing Industry (I).4.0 solutions. She is a mentor for Big Idea Venture (BIV) and consultant for a few food companies in Malaysia and Singapore.
Dr Ong currently also serves as an Adjunct Professor and part time lecturer for Food Science...Read more
Jin-zhong Xiao Graduated from Southern China Agriculture University, China, in 1984 and finished his PhD course at Nagoya University, Japan, in 1991. After his research careers at Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and RIKEN, Japan, he joined Morinaga Milk Industry in 1995. He has carried out many projects in the basic and functional researches of bifidobacteria and the development of yogurt at R&D center and published over 100 articles in the related area.
His research projects focus on microbiota and health, basic and functional aspects of probiotic bifidobacteria. ...Read more
Kaiyang Lim obtains his Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Honors) Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He went on to further his post-graduate study in the same institute, graduating in February 2016 with a PhD in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. His PhD research dissertation focuses on the design of de novo antimicrobial peptides as a next-generation therapeutic substitute for antibiotics and development of functional materials as coatings for biomedical devices. Kaiyang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Institute of...Read more
Torki Hemsh, holds a Bachelor degree in Petroleum Engineering, and a Master degree in Petroleum Geoscience from Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has worked for the Syrian Petroleum Company from 1993 to 2005 as a reservoir engineer, and was a director in Al Furat Petroleum Company (joint venture between SPC and Shell) between 2005 and 2007. He joined the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) in 2007 as a petroleum expert. He has published more than 14 studies covering many fields in the upstream industry, and coauthored many more papers.Read more
